The video has become an internet sensation in the weeks since its release. On Facebook, it racked up more than 2.1 million views and hundreds of comments, many of them lauding Daugherty's campaign for its humor.

It's a well-calculated caricature of Daugherty's actual work on the commissioners court; the ad manages to poke fun at the dry bureaucracy of county-level politics while still portraying the candidate as competent and engaged.

Even George Takei shared it on his page, writing, "I don't know anything about Travis County Commissioner Gerald Daugherty. But I found his campaign video to be very droll. Ah, some welcome levity during this election cycle."

So as Americans hold their breaths for the end of this contentious presidential election, Daugherty has provided Americans a well-humored respite — and a reminder that politics can rise above name-calling, mistruths, and nastiness.